Nebula Raises $25M From Comcast, Kleiner Perkins To Help Companies Deploy On-Premise, Private Clouds
September 5, 2012
Grazed from Tech Crunch. Author: Leena Rao.
Nebula, a company that allows businesses to deploy large private cloud computing infrastructures has raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Comcast Ventures and Highland Capital Partners with Kleiner Perkins, William Hearts II, Maynard Webb, Scott McNealy, and Innovation Endeavors participating. Also joining the round are Google’s first three investors, Andy Bechtolsheim, David Cheriton and Ram Shriram.
Founded by Chris Kemp, the former CTO of NASA and OpenStack co-founder; Nebula allows businesses to create a private infrastructure and data systems. As Kemp explained to TechCrunch’s Semil Shah earlier this year, Nebula’s infrastructure is similar to Amazon Web Services and runs behind your own firewall in your own data center environment…
Basically, the Nebula private cloud system allows any business to easily build a massive private computing cloud from hundreds or thousands of inexpensive servers. At Nebula’s core is the OpenStack technology, explains Kemp, which allows you to take many computers in data center and treat it as one big system. Kemp adds, “Nebula allows you to manage a data center like the cloud.”
“We are very excited to have an opportunity to make a significant investment in this round,” said Peter Bell, General Partner at Highland Capital Partners, in a release. “We believe that Nebula and OpenStack is at the nexus of a historical shift in enterprise computing.”…
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